People think that as a celebrity, you have to have this sort of mystique about you, but I'm probably the realest person you'll ever meet.

I am a hopeless romantic and so is my wife.

Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think.

To be compared to Will Smith is probably one of the coolest things because that's who I came up admiring.

Just speak yourself into existence. Whatever you want, speak it. You can see it.

Don't worry about my life, worry about why you're worried about my life!

The people who truly love me and loved me before all of this stuff. You can't ever leave them behind.

Trying to save a hater is like trying to teach astrophysics to a wino!

We are already expected to be the goodie two shoes. I went through that during my junior high schools where I wasn't allowed to watch television. I wasn't allowed to listen to the radio.

So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of things at a young age because I was intrigued.

Having children obviously changes your priorities, but when you start to see life through these innocent eyes and seeing everything for the first time, you appreciate the small things.

My God - it's a green child!" said the American. "What is this place - the House of Usher?

It shouldn’t surprise us…to find that prayer is not finally about getting things from God, but getting God.

I remember the stink of corruption. It had a kind of sweetness to it, a sweetness that'd make you want to hurl.

Today's sales should be better than yesterday's - and worse than tomorrow's.

You never can tell with bees.

A writer once asked what I'd say if I ever met my biggest hater. I paused, thought deeply and said, "Probably 'suk a dog dik, motherfuker.'"

If you are living in the past or in the future, you will never find a meaning in the present.

Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

Emotion seemed more valid than experience, for I had so much of the former and so little of the latter.

How good we are as preachers depends - not altogether, but (make no mistake!) primarily - on how good we are as men.